please explain soda blasting process

[Rich82GS750TZ]

That sucks. POS PO strikes again. Someone in the bike's past knew about the broken float post. Same guy that buggered the pilot jet hole threads.

[SkyfangR]

lucky me. a set of carbs literally just popped up on ebay. snapped em up. they look pretty funky but thats nothing my USC and some elbow grease cant fix

[Nessism]

Please read the carb rebuild tutorial in my signature. It shows how to extract the float pin without busting the float post.

[SkyfangR]

Please read the carb rebuild tutorial in my signature. It shows how to extract the float pin without busting the float post.

i didn't break the post. or dent the pin. when i pulled the bowl off, this is how it was.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Skyfang, Whether you did it or not, Ed literally wrote the book on how to properly work on these carbs. He’s just giving sound advice so you don’t make the same mistakes.

[LAB3]

Skyfang, Whether you did it or not, Ed literally wrote the book on how to properly work on these carbs. He’s just giving sound advice so you don’t make the same mistakes.

When I rebuilt my 450 carbs the tutorial was invaluable, I managed to get it close enough to right the first time.

[roeme]

i didn't break the post. or dent the pin. when i pulled the bowl off, this is how it was.

Nobody said you did – it's just so you don't repeat PO's mistake.

Seems to be a design mistake on the CV's, the pins came out very easily on my VM's (or maybe the dies were either very fresh or very worn out when the bodies of my carbs were cast).

[SkyfangR]

Skyfang, Whether you did it or not, Ed literally wrote the book on how to properly work on these carbs. He’s just giving sound advice so you don’t make the same mistakes.

i understand that. and i've actually printed his tut out and laminated it so i can keep it in my work area.
it is very good, and ill be using it when i disassemble the new set i just ordered to replace these *@%^$*@%^$*@%^$*@%^$ty ones.

[metalfab]

The magic occurs when you put Berrymans in the ultrasonic cleaner. I was amazed the first time I did it. It only takes about 5 minutes. Water does fine, chemdip gets medieval with it. Remember if you buy Chemdip there are two different types. The 0996 is the consumer grade product it does clean good, and it can eat aluminum if you leave it soaking too long. The 0905 chemdip is aluminum safe it has a completely different chemistry. The 0905 is the professional strength chemdip, and is way stronger than the 0996. It is odd that the weaker product eats aluminum, and the professional 0905 does not bother aluminum. Don't use heat if you put chemdip in the ultrasonic cleaner, the 0905 boils at 110F. If you get it boiling the fumes are indescribably strong, like ammonia strong. And yes I actually did that, and it was bad. The carbs sure looked good once I got the fumes out of the shop. Ultrasound transcends metal cans. You can fill the ultrasonic cleaner with water and set a metal can with chemdip and carb parts down into the ultrasonic cleaner. When you turn the machine on the can is invisible to the ultrasound, the parts in the can get cleaned like they were in the main tank. This helps to keep the machine clean.